Construction under way at the Houston TranStar building will not only triple the size of the Harris County Emergency Operations Center but will create a new Metro EOC and provide for other expansion, including additional parking space.

Construction under way at the Houston TranStar building will not...

As Hurricane Ike bore down on the upper Texas Gulf Coast in September 2008, about 500 people with a focus on emergency management scurried into the Houston TranStar Building.

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